The Common Good Podcast

Robb and Doug take a look back at the last year and talk politics and the pandemic.

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a progressive republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse

The Common Good Daily podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. 

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Massimo Faggioli, author of Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States, joins host Doug Pagitt to talk about how the faith of this president impacts policy. They also discuss the separation of church and state, and the often-angrily-shouted question, "how can someone be Catholic and be pro-choice?"

Massimo Faggioli is a Church historian, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University and contributing writer to Commonweal magazine. He was on the faculty at the University of St. Thomas from 2009 to 2016, where he was the founding director of the Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship.

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

The Common Good Daily podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. 

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Today on Common Good Issues hosts Dan and Robb discuss immigration with guest Yonathan Moya. Yonathan is the founder and executive director of Border Perspective, a non-profit organization trying to change the conversation on immigration through storytelling and guided trips to the US/Mexico border. 

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Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a progressive republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse

Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former pastor, and producer of the Vote Common Good podcast. @danieldeitrich

It's Black History Month and PBS just released an incredible doc-series called The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song. Our hosts, Stephany Spaulding and Laura Truax and producer Dan Deitrich discuss the docu-series and how the Black Church grew and thrived even under the evils of slavery and white supremacy.

You can watch the first installment of The Black Church here.

Also mentioned in this episode:

These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lapore

Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians. 

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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).

Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter and producer of the Vote Common Good podcast. @danieldeitrich

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Today on Common Good Politics, host Robb Ryerse and Producer Daniel Deitrich talk about the sobering milestone of 500,000 Covid deaths, the winter storm in Texas, and the ill-timed vacation of Ted Cruz.  Dr. Janja Lalich, one of the nations leading experts on cults, joins us to discuss political cults and the allure of Trumpism.

Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a particular focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality.

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Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a progressive republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse

Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former pastor, and producer of the Vote Common Good podcast. @danieldeitrich

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Introducing, Common Good Music, part of the Vote Common Good Daily Podcast. On Common Good Music we spotlight the music of the movement - songs that speak truth to power, name the pain and injustice in the world, and help us dream of a better way forward.

In this episode, host Daniel Deitrich talks art and activism with Malcolm du Plessis, founder of Common Hymnal (no relation to Vote Common Good, but pretty great name if you ask us). Common Hymnal is an artist collective that fuses praise and protest as a way to respond to the struggles in our nation and the world. It is worship music that refuses to be escapist, but instead finds the patient Christ willing to sit with us in our pain.

Songs featured in this episode:

God is Not Abusive - Brittney Spencer

He Has Time - Jamie MacDonald

Rose Petals - Dee Wilson

How Much Longer - DJ Griffin, Seaux Chill, April Lee

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Check out the Common Good Music Spotify Playlist here.

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Paul Wallace writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. Wallace teaches physics and astronomy at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, taught at Hampden-Sydney College, Berry College, Candler, and Columbia Theological Seminary, was a NASA Faculty Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and served on the faculty of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative in Dharamsala, India.

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director of Vote Common Good and is a pastor, author, and social activist.    

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Today is part two of our conversation on abortion. Our guests Ashley Abercrombie and Elisabeth Kraus share their stories and invite fellow Christians to approach this issue with more humility and compassion. 

Ashley Abercrombie  is a writer, speaker and podcaster who talks and writes honestly about motherhood, justice and faith. She is the author of Rise of the Truth Teller and Co-Host of the The Why Tho Podcast.

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Elisabeth Kraus is a public speaker and educator. She is also an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and for women who have had challenging or miscarried pregnancies.

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The Common Good Daily podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. 

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Common Good Faith - Wednesday February 10, 2021

Today on Common Good Faith, our hosts talk Ash Wednesday, Mardi Gras, and how Lent can be an invitation for white churches to repent of toxic Christian nationalism.

Notes and resources:

https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/justo-l-gonzalez luke series

NPR - 4 in 10 Republicans Think Political Violence May Be Necessary

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Common Good Faith Hosts:

Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege will be released on August 24, 2021.

Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians. 

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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).

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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

The Common Good Daily podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. 

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Every Tuesday, our hosts Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take a deep dive into politics.

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a progressive republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse

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